Thursday, December 07, 2006

Metro Bus Driver Orders Man to Litter in Our Neighborhood

Tonight around 9:30 I was riding the 80 bus home. Shortly after the bus turned left onto North Capitol Street, the bus driver noticed that a passenger in the back of the bus possessed something, probably food or drink, prohibited by Metro regulations.

"You have to get rid of that," the bus driver told that man. "Throw it out the window." The man protested that he could get a ticket for littering. The bus driver replied "That's not my problem." The man then threw something out the window. A bit surprised, I said to the driver "you're littering in my neighborhood," but I left it at that. My experience with bus drivers has been that they are not interested in passenger commentary about Metro issues.

We ought to make littering every bus driver's problem. No doubt drivers are regularly confronted with the issue of someone eating or drinking on a bus. A trash receptical should be available somewhere on every bus. We have enough trash to deal with on North Capitol Street without bus drivers asking citizens to violate littering laws.

2 Comments:

At 12/11/2006 12:43 PM, Blogger AbbotOfUnreason said...

When did possessing food become against the rules? Consuming is definitely a problem, but are they saying that people are not allowed to bring food onto the bus? What about people grocery shopping? What about all those stupid voice overs in the train system saying "Hungry? Take Metro to your favorite restaurant?"

 
At 12/14/2006 4:58 AM, Blogger Steve's Blog said...

you tell'em kris!

 

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